ShowImage is a simple KDE based image viewer using the maximum space inside its window without cluttering the window with menubar, toolbar or statusbar.
It is my replacement for the KDE3 tool kuickshow.
You simply act via the keyboard (rotate, zoom, etc.) or via the context menu (right mouse click).
You can view a single image or browse through a full directory, optionally in fullscreen mode.

Changelog:

27.Sep 2014 - 1.9
- added "Open With" menu to open in other image manipulation app or also to open the containing folder in a File Manager
- uses now exif information in images to show the image correctly rotated
- some smaller bugfixes

Re: does this require Imlib1?

no, it does not need anything else but Qt and KDE4.
The problems with the availability of imlib was the reason why I implemented a new tool as replacement of kuickshow.

@suggestions:
- on right click add
a) properties
b) save as
c) print

=> I'll add it to my TODO

- add an icon for use by task manager
Hmm ... I set an icon, but a generic one as I do not bundle one. The name is x-shape-image, which KDE finds here in
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/x-shape-image.png

probably I'll need to bundle one...

An usage scenario

I wonder if you care about this kind of usage scenario:

Use dolphin (or ranger, or any other) as thumbnailer, navigate with keyboard, launch a picture with enter key - showimage fires up on the center of the screen, window resized to size of the picture - plus fast zooming with resizing a window - plus scrollbars show up when zoomed picture doesn't fit the screen (or maybe not?), space and backspace for next and previous picture in a folder(maybe recursively too) - closing showimage by hitting enter key again - this way it would be possible to both launch image and close it by hitting the same key, good for quick previewing.

At least this is what i miss in kde - just a quick previewer app without toolbars or menu or anything, overlayed transparent back forward controls could be nice thing to implement though.

Great, thanks! Here's few more proposals:

Antialiasing for scaled down images.

Preload next image.
Which image is the next? Can it get a sorting order from dolphin?

For zooming theres an excellent feature in gwenview that flips mouse cursor over from one edge of the screen to another when panning an image - i'm not sure if i describe it right.

Mouse scroll to pan an image? It zoomes in and out now, but since image window is resizing itself mouse cursor gets off of the image window easily. I guess these decisions really want to live in a settings window.

For some reason showimage doesn't fill the whole screen when zooming in an image, resizes a window only up to about 95% of the screen area.

Other than that nice and fast, 'center everything, resize relating to center of a screen' policy is missed though - an acdsee nostalgia.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51419

Zooming?

Can it zoom-in related to coordinates of a mouse cursor? It seems to do it, until picture gets cropped, then it reverts to zooming related to top-left corner coordinates of a window.

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Zooming with mouse scroll works much better now, though with touchpad and multitouch scroll, imho, it is better to just pan a picture rather than zoom or browse, because theres almost no physical feedback of how much is being scrolled with touchpad - especially when cpu lags a bit - one can skip images when browsing, zoom in too much etc. And, also, +1 for panning because with touchpad both vertical and horizontal scrolling is possible.

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Theoretically, i think image previewer app should always be centered on the screen, since it is often launched for just a couple of seconds and users focus is mostly at the center of a screen.

I think, picture itself should be zoomed in and out relating to coordinates of a mouse cursor, while pictures frame (or window) should, at the same time, be resized relating to center of the screen, this should keep pictures from "jumping around" when browsing and zooming.

Sorry, for being pushy, take it for what it is - just an opinion. Thanks for a nice app!

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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